Montage   Photo   Gallery
                                          (this  web  page  last  updated  on  April  22, 2007)
                Debbie  Starker          -        photo   by  Lori  Casdia 

 
www.debsliweb.homestead.com       -      Long  Island   Theater  new:   DEB's   WEB. 

Debbie  Starker   -   actress,  singer,   &  director.

 Debbie has acted in some of our Montage Radio Theatre productions.  
Debbie Starker has played  the following characters with Montage Radio Theatre:

A   homicidal  clown  in   "Always  Keep'n   Laughing"

Captain  Barbara  "Babs"  Gold  in the  comedy  "Space  Car"

A  liberal  high  school  teacher  in,"Color Me Bigot"

Ambassador in,"The Day Music Lived"    (a   science fiction -  fantasy   monologue)
 
    President Margaret Strong  in the,"The Gods in the Pentagon"  (President of the USA)   -  a  Dr. Strangelove-type  black comedy
       

You  can   HEAR  Debbie  Starker  in  three  of  the  aforementioned  Montage  Radio  audio  plays 
"The Gods in the Pentagon",          "Space  Car",        AND         "The Day Music  Lived"       at:  

          www.bradleyphoenix.com/playsandskits.html 

        
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Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix     -      The  Bradster          :)
@ WUSB Radio Station  -  90.1 FM  -  Control  Room #1
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY
DJ-ing, announcing credits, introducing sound effects, and keeping the 4-hour show going!!!

When  I  did  my  audio  play,"The 'Made' Rat", I  played the son of a Mafia boss,
played the transitional  music,  dropped in the electronic sound effects, and  announced the closing credits  (Yikes!)
"The  'Made' Rat"  story  is  like the Sopranos meets  the Twilight  Zone.
(The actors are on the other side of the control panel...seen through a glass partition)
Labor Day  performance  2002

When  I  was  on  Ibrahim  Gonzalez's  radio program,"In the Moment",
 I  noted  that  the   WBAI - 99.5 FM  studios were much more practical and spacious than
the  WUSB  radio  station studios, Stony Brook University, Long Island.
The  only  other  radio station I  got  to see  up close and  personal  was  WALK  in Patchogue.
*  I'd  like  to  thank  Ibrahim Gonzalez  for  inviting me to sit-in and watch him do his fascinating  radio program from time-to-time
Friday  mornings  from 3 am  -  6 am  on  WBAI  - 99.5 FM.

 

Bradley Thunderbird Phoenix and Joanne Littell
Joanne and I  are  dropping in the electronic sound effects,  music,  and making announcements  from this station
@ Huntington Public Library performance at 338 Main Street
Huntington, Long Island, NY    -    July  2002   performance

 

 

Mike Newman, Norman Glanzman, and Brett Lindner
These gentlemen are very talented and capable actors!
@ WUSB  Radio  Station   -  90.1 FM   -     Labor  Day   performance   2002

 


Anthony  Pomes,  Elaine  Powers,  and  Kent  Loudon
@ WUSB Radio Station  -  90.1 FM  -  Labor  Day performance 2002

 


Elaine  Powers,   Kent  Loudon,  and  Marie  Comerford
members of the Hunterdon Radio Theatre - Hunterdon County, New Jersey
@ WUSB Radio Station - 90.1 FM - Labor Day performance 2002

 


Bob Hastings, actor of film, radio, and television  (McHale's  Navy)
and    Bradley   Thunderbird   Phoenix
Holiday North Inn Hotel  (near the Newark Airport, Newark, New Jersey)
@  the  FOTR  Convention   October  2000

 


Bradley Thunderbird Phoenix, Barbara "Babs" Hutchins, and Will Hutchins (actor of stage, film & television)
Holiday Inn North Hotel (near the Newark Airport, Newark, New Jersey)
@ FOTR Convention - October 2000

                          

                                           
                                                                                                         
 
 
                                                                    The    very   talented    John  Tabacco
                                                    
John Tabacco is a composer, singer, engineer, multi instrumentalist, graphic artist, co-founder of Sonic Underground,  a successful recording studio in Stony Brook, NY., and CEO of It Iz What It Iz Music Publishing. He has studied orchestration with noted 20th century composer John Lessard, harmony with the
late electronic music maverick Bulent Arel, composition with Stony Brook Music Professor Peter Winkler and received his BA in Music from SUNY in 1983. 
In 1987 he oversaw operations at Backdoor Studios in Huntington Station and in 1990 at Modern Voices Studios in Centerport, NY.

Tabacco is also co-founder of Sound Archeology (the cutting edge in analog to digital conversion technology) and has engineered /mixed music for hundreds
of New York based recording artists as well as projects released on such major labels as BMG: The Kemelions, RCA: Faze, Rampage/Rhino: Rhett Forrester, Columbia: Rebbie Jackson, Bob Marley (Rykodisc) and Nickleodeon¹s hit TV kid show Are You Afraid Of The Dark?,and Chris Jasper (Of Isley Brothers fame). Along with Backdoor Records cronies Nick DiMauro and Chris Pati, Tabacco was involved in the creation of the 12" single Go House Yourself. This single (a parody on acid house music with a glorious chain saw solo in it) went to Number 39 on Billboard¹s Retail Dance Sales Chart in November of 1989.
In Italy it went to number 9 on the charts.   A cheesy hand-held video of the song went to number one in Puerto Rico in and around the same time.

In 1999, Tabacco co-produced and arranged the CD Re-Inventing The Wheel with ex-Zappa guitarist/ author Nigey Lennon. This collaboration brought
Tabacco to the attention of master big band arranger Ed Palermo. Subsequently Tabacco sang lead vocals from 2000-2003 with the Ed Palermo Big Band.
The group performed many successful concerts at NYC's The Bottom Line until the clubs demise.

Summer of 2002 saw Tabacco, along with Nigey Lennon and Frank Zappa's sister, Candy Zappa, fronting a band at the famed Zappanale in Bad Dobern, 
East Germany. With some classic Zappa numbers and many Tabacco originals the group's performances were well received by the European crowd.    2003
saw Tabacco arranging music for Sony mega - producer Corey Rooney and his brother Jeff for projects involving, Toni Braxton and her sister Tamar.
Also in that year Tabacco signed an independent record deal with Blake Seal's company sumthindiffrent.com/  The company released a re-working of the JT
CD "It's Out There Feeding On Itself" under the title: "Realized @ 21 Walnut". Favorable reviews of this CD are staring to roll in as college radio starts to pick
up on the Tabacco musical universe.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco¹s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined. They reflect the happenings going on in his life at the moment. Studio recordings are constantly in progress. His style is a melding of pop-jazz-rock-avant garde/aleatory, classical and comedy. A feature in Keyboard Magazine¹s Discoveries column (issue 1/88) lists his main musical influences as: The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, The Firesign Theatre, Thelonious Monk, Brian Wilson, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Stravinsky and his small group of musical collaborators.

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EDITOR'S  NOTE   (from  the  Bradster):
John Tabacco was  a  member of the Montage Radio Theatre since 1997.
John is an actor, audio engineer (digital editor, some manual sound effects, MP3, etc.), and singer.
He has over 13 CDs of music that he composed, wrote the lyrics, and performed.
He's one of the fellow evangelists in the Church of Creativity.

You  can  visit  John's  websites:      www.sumthindiffrent.com/           AND          www.cdbaby.com/cd/jtabacco


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                                                                          BRAD'S    FAMILY     PHOTOS    BELOW...
 
 
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My  dad,   Egbert.    Raised  in  Southampton, Long Island, NY.                             My  mom,  Jacqueline  or  Jackie.    
Through my father,  I  have  relatives on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation             Photo  taken by  me  at  our  house in Bay Shore.                                    on  Long  Island, NY  adjacent to  Southampton, NY                                             One  of  the  rare  times  my mother  wore  an  afro.
Through my mother, I  have Native blood  through the Canarsie  Indians                  My  mother  passed  away  in  January  2000.
who  lived  in what  is   known  today  as  the  Brooklyn, NY  area.
My  father  passed   away  in  March  1971.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                  Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix                    Bradley   Thunderbird   Phoenix
   My  parents wedding  picture - late 1940's               Me in 1977 before  word  processing.                 One of   my  baby  pictures.
   My  mom and dad  are in the middle.                       Doing  something  I  love:  writing  stories.        I.Q. =  400       (just   kidding)         :)
                                                                                 I  started  off  writing poetry, then
                                                                                short stories...ultimately:  audio scripts.
                                          
Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix    Home  in  Bay  Shore '77     Soldier  on  leave  circa  1980              Taken   circa   1964
My  high  school  graduation                
picture  (1973)...bushy  afro and  all.
                                           
                   Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix                                                                            Bradley   Thunderbird  Phoenix                   
       My  very  short  career  in  little  league  1964.                     Karate   Joke   Poster   made  at   Disneyland,  California  in  the 1980's
       Photo taken with my house in the background.                                               "This  "negro"  ("knee-grow") is  really  good!" 
       Today, I enjoy racquetball!                                                                [ LAUGHTER  FROM  THE  AUDIENCE ]             :)    :)    :)
                                                                                                
                                                                                                Relax!     Don't  panic,  Black  History  is  very  important  to  me.

                                                                                                NOTE:    Martial   arts   had   its  origin   among   black  African   people,
                                                                                                                and    that's    no     joke.    When   I   finish  compiling
                                                                                                                the  information,   I'll   place  it  on  my  Black  History  web  page:
                                                                                                                www.bradleyphoenix.com/bhm.html                

                                                                                                                                                       HOTEP   (ancient African word for  PEACE)


                            
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               Help   support  the  Helen  Keller  National  Center's   mission  by   making   an   online   donation   at
                                                                     http://www.hknc.org/Giving.htm
 

*  I  want  to  do my part  with  my website to help support The Helen Keller Services for the Blind.
   I've donated some of my audio plays on CD to the Helen Keller National Center in Sands Point, Long Island, NY.
   I'm an artist that was born and raised on Long Island, and the sight-impaired are a natural audience for the medium
   of audio theater.    Purchase my audio plays, auction items, garage sale items, and leasing my original scripts,
   and I will donate proceeds to the HKNC  in Sands Point, NY.   But  YOU don't have to wait for me!   YOU can make
   a  direct  online donation to the Helen Keller National Center by going to the website highlighted in blue above.

                                                                                                   --    Bradley  Thunderbird  Phoenix           :)

 

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